Category: Updates
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9/3/2025 — EU resists ‘difficult’ decoupling of Ukraine and Moldova’s accession bids

From: EuroNews By Jorge Liboreiro Ukraine’s bid to join the EU is paralysed by Hungary’s veto, a situation that has prevented Moldova from advancing in its application. The European Union continues to resist decoupling the membership applications of Ukraine and Moldova, fearing that such a break-up would deal a heavy blow to Kyiv at a time…
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9/3/2025 — Putin’s failed summer offensive shatters the myth of inevitable Russian victory

From: Atlantic Council By Peter Dickinson During the early months of 2025, there was much speculation that Russia’s coming summer offensive would prove the decisive campaign of the entire invasion. Many thought the Ukrainian army was already close to collapse, with Putin himself declaring in March that “there are reasons to believe we can finish off” Ukrainian forces.…
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8/3/2025 — It’s time for Trump to put maximum pressure on Putin

From: Atlantic Council By Frederick Kempe Let’s make this simple. After the red carpets were rolled away and the B-2 bomber returned to its hangar, here’s what the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska in August produced: further Russian escalation of war crimes in Ukraine. Put clearly: Vladimir Putin answered Donald Trump’s disdain for pointless death with more…
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9/3/2025 — POWs Reveal Why They Fought for Russia and What They Regret 
From: Kyiv Post Kyiv Post journalist Kateryna Zakharchenko gained exclusive access to one of Ukraine’s largest POW camps and spoke with foreign fighters captured after serving for Russia. In the first interview, Joshua from Ghana explains how studying in Moscow and financial struggles led him to sign a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense.…
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9/3/2025 — Putin’s False Concessions: Marginal Offers Mask Continued Maximalist Demands
From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / September 3, 2025 Russian President Leverages Meeting with Slovak PM to Feign Diplomacy While Kremlin Officials Deny Peace Meeting Prospects and Moscow Signs Major Gas Deal with China Summary of the Day – September 2, 2025 Vladimir Putin presented marginal concessions during his Beijing meeting with Slovak PM Robert Fico while…
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9/3/2025 — Be gracious to me, O Lord,for to you do I cry all the day…

From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 1287) Be gracious to me, O Lord,for to you do I cry all the day.Show me a sign of your favor,that those who hate me may see and be put to shamebecause you, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.Psalm 86:3, 17 Even though we started school last week,…
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9/2/2025 — Russia air defenses down: Ukraine burns airfields in Crimea

From: Anna From Ukraine 🇺🇦 Vlog 1154: war in Ukraine Russia lost two Mi-8 combat helicopters in Crimea, after the successful attacks of Ukraine drones destroyed 5 radars of the Russian air defense on the peninsula.
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9/2/2025 — Flamingo Missiles HIT FSB Base in Crimea

From: Jason Jay Smart — A new day brings fresh catastrophes for Russia as Ukraine’s forces successfully blind Russia’s eyes across occupied Crimea. Strategic strikes are knocking out the S-300 radars and air defense systems that allow Moscow to occupy the peninsula. Without these critical military capabilities, incoming missiles and drones are getting through Russian…
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9/1/2025 — Steal, kill, destroy – Inside the Russian campaign to purge Christians from occupied Ukrainian territory

From: World by William Fleeson In the middle of Sunday morning service, Russian troops stormed into Grace Church of Evangelical Christians, a Baptist congregation in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Melitopol. The glass in the church’s doors shattered as the Russians, using sledgehammers and military assault tactics, smashed their way in. The heavily armed men proceeded…
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9/1/2025 — Ukraine and a Peace Worthy of the Name

From: FirstThings.com by GEORGE WEIGEL Pope Leo XIV’s spiritual lodestar is St. Augustine. In his first months in office, the Holy Father summoned the Church to pray, fast, and work for an end to the twenty-first century’s wars. That spiritual orientation and that summons invite us to consider what “peace” is possible in this world. In…